Orfeo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orfeo write by Richard Powers. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Orfeo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of the National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Echo Maker, Richard Powers “may well be one of the smartest novelists now writing” (LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home DIY microbiology lab--the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear’s ability to hear--has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid on his house, Els turns fugitive, waiting for the evidence to clear him and for the alarm surrounding his activities to blow over. His days in hiding provoke memories of a turbulent century of musical turf wars and cause Els to reflect on a life spent chasing after transcendent sounds to the bewilderment of an indifferent public. As the national hysteria for safety erupts again in the face of this latest threat, Els--the “Bioterrorist Bach”--feeling the noose around him tighten, embarks on a cross-country trip to visit the people in his past who have most shaped his failed musical journey. Through the help of these people--his ex-wife, his daughter and his long-time artistic collaborator-- Els comes up with a plan to turn this disastrous collision with the security state into one last, resonant artwork that might reach an audience beyond his wildest dreams. Inspired by Steve Kurtz, the bio-artist wrongly arrested for terrorism by the FBI, Orfeo probes the boundary between stifling safety and reckless, releasing danger. It explores the varieties of human hunger, in particular the desire to hear more and to make meaning where there is none. Finally, the book is a meditation on that most endangered and priceless of human resources: attention.
Orpheus in the Academy
Orpheus in the Academy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orpheus in the Academy write by Joel Schwindt. This book was released on 2021-08-09. Orpheus in the Academy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.
Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo
Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo write by John Whenham. This book was released on 1986-02-27. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed history of the rediscovery of the opera; an influential essay by Joseph Kerman is reprinted here, together with a review by Romain Rolland of the first modern performance of Orfeo. The final section includes essays by a conductor and a producer who have staged notable performances of the opera in recent years. They explain their approaches to the work, and offer solutions to some of the problems it poses in performance.
Orfeo’s Last Act
Orfeo’s Last Act - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orfeo’s Last Act write by Michelene Wandor. This book was released on 2024-08-15. Orfeo’s Last Act available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Orfeo’s Last Act, set in 17th-century Italy, Monteverdi rewrites 'Orfeo's' ending with Salamone Rossi's help. The original was lost. In modern East Anglia, Emilia discovers a mysterious manuscript, leading her into a world of passion, danger, forgery, and academic intrigue.
Chronik des Kirchspiels Steinberg: T. 1. Steinberg
Chronik des Kirchspiels Steinberg: T. 1. Steinberg - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chronik des Kirchspiels Steinberg: T. 1. Steinberg write by . This book was released on 1986. Chronik des Kirchspiels Steinberg: T. 1. Steinberg available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
